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Another look under the hood of search

Written By andrevai on Thursday, August 25, 2011 | 10:04 AM

(Cross-posted on the Inside Search blog and the Public Policy blog)



Over the past few years, we’ve released a series of blog posts to share the methodology and process behind our search ranking, evaluation and algorithmic changes. Just last month, Ben Gomes, Matt Cutts and I participated in a Churchill Club event where we discussed how search works and where we believe it’s headed in the future.



Beyond our talk and various blog posts, we wanted to give people an even deeper look inside search, so we put together a short video that gives you a sense of the work that goes into the changes and improvements we make to Google almost every day. While an improvement to the algorithm may start with a creative idea, it always goes through a process of rigorous scientific testing. Simply put: if the data from our experiments doesn’t show that we’re helping users, we won’t launch the change.







In the world of search, we’re always striving to deliver the answers you’re looking for. After all, we know you have a choice of a search engine every time you open a browser. As the Internet becomes bigger, richer and more interactive it means that we have to work that much harder to ensure we’re unearthing and displaying the best results for you.





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Inside Google's search office

Written By andrevai on Friday, August 5, 2011 | 2:11 PM

(Cross-posted on the Inside Search Blog)



I’ve been working with Matt Cutts and Ben Gomes in the same office for over 10 years. We work on search every day, and earlier this week, we took our office talk to the stage at an event hosted by the Churchill Club. Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan moderated our in-depth discussion on search, how it works, and what’s ahead for us in the future. We also reminisced about first joining Google, the time my car ran out of gas as Ben and I discussed a change to the algorithm, and other great memories over the years.



Come sit inside our office for a chat about Google Search:





  • To hear more about the principles that drive changes to the algorithm and how these changes are tested and implemented, go to 15:40

  • To hear the discussion on why we don’t hand-pick results, start watching at 41:04

  • For more on my vision for the future of search, jump to 1:12:28

  • Guess who Danny thinks is the brains, looks, and brawn of this operation at 1:08 (hint: I’m the brains).




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